by admin | Dec 23, 2013 | Workshop
LivingStandardsNZ: Aligning public policy with the way we want to live 3-5 December 2013 About The LivingStandardsNZ workshop was a collaboration between McGuinness Institute and the New Zealand treasury, which brought together 28 young people to stress test...
by admin | Dec 17, 2013 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
While assisting with the LivingStandardsNZ Workshop, Diana Tam produced a working paper for the Institute, entitled Living the Good Life – Defining ‘living standards’, which is now available for download on the McGuinness Institute website. The working paper is...
by admin | Dec 13, 2013 | Project TalentNZ
The TalentNZ initiative has been underway for a month now and we are in the planning stages of a speaking tour for early next year. Our first major output is the journal TalentNZ: Creating a place where talent wants to live. The Journal comprises three major...
by admin | Dec 13, 2013 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
We had a great week last week hosting 28 young New Zealanders, who came together to stress-test the Treasury’s Living Standard’s Framework. The Institute, in collaboration with the New Zealand Treasury, brought together 28 participants from all around New Zealand...
by admin | Dec 4, 2013 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
For each day of the LivingStandardsNZ workshop (3-5 December 2013) we are giving the participants a ‘Thought for the Day’. These thoughts are from a range of sources and are designed to encourage the participants to think broadly about some of the issues...